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From: Frode =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tenneb=F8?= <frodet@nvg.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:10:49 +0100
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> In article <1rht29.gc2.ln@leia>,
>   Frode =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tenneb=F8?= <frodet@nvg.org> wrote:
> > Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> > This is indeed what I meant, circular elaboration. Circular
> > dependencies is something completely different.
> 
> But circular elaboration cannot happen with a properly written
> Ada program.

Indeed it can't, but nasty non the less _when_ it occurs. :)
There will always be legacy code out there which is not properly 
written. 

> In general, the answer is simple "fix the bugs in your
> program". Specific answers to this are very dependent on
> the exact code in question -- as I mentioned before, a
> significant part of our support effort is in helping people
> get around these problems, so if you are a GNAT Professional
> User, by all means ask us for help on such issues.

:) I was more thinking about how this can be solved in the language 
itself. How much of this is done in languages like Java or C++?

> > And more importantly, will it be fixed in Ada 0X.
> 
> If there is an Ada 0X, and if it addresses these issues, it
> most likely will do something similar to what GNAT does in
> this area (as I assume you know, GNAT goes far beyond the
> RM in terms of elaboration capabilities).

GNAT does an excellent job and one of the reasons I have confidence in 
Ada is the strong compiler technology supplied by GNAT.

 -Frode

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